Ethical Issues with the Software Piracy Issue

information processing system ethics deals with moral responsibility of what is wrong and right. Based on ? Importance of Computer Ethics and Software Piracy? article, software plagiarisation is copying, distributing, and using software or games without paying. Software Piracy is a form of ethical issue that is hard to solve in society, especially among students of Faculty of Computer attainment University of Indonesia. Based on writer observation in campus, students are withal using pirated software, including using, duplicating, and distributing it to their friends.This attitude of course violates developers capable property. The article alike mentions about intellectual property and penalties for those who violate computer ethics laws. Intellectual property is including images, patents, procedures, videos, audios, and drawings. For those who violate psyches intellectual property will be given penaltiespaying hefty fines to extensive prison time. But even so, it seems the p enalties are still blurring for students. Nowadays, information technology has widely grow and used by piece.Computer technology, both hardware and software has been widely approved as an intellectual property. The fast growth of technology innovation, especially software, is open for public and house be easily accessed by public via internet. It is the same for software piracy. Serial key, hack-version, and more other ways are easily accessible and widely available. Based on ? Ethical Issues in Software Piracy? article, nearlyone should subscribe a moral responsibility in using software. So, from internal-self of user should be aware of someones intellectual property.W. D. Ross stated ? The Right and the Good? as our guideline to prove our moral responsibility toward software and/or its developer. Software piracy would practise loss of revenue for the developer. Thus, it will decrease developers motivation in designing new software. Impacts of software piracy explained above a re mostly occurred because of human and economic factor. Based on the article, software piracy occurred mostly in developing-countries because of their low economics (from GDP per capita), they find it harder to purchase software.Indonesia is one of developing-countries, so it shag be concluded roughly that Indonesian people hard to pay for software. In smaller scale, Indonesian kindly levels have a representative exit of users in technology. Social level is about divided in three level low, medium, and high class. In Faculty of Computers and Society, students also varied in social level or economic level. Some students have Iphone, Windows Phone, or tablets, but some dont. In general, there is no difference among those levels. Every student is using technology. But in majority, students didnt put much attention toward software piracy issues.Those who have laptops may prefer using unlicensed run system than using open source operating system. It is a form of software piracyusin g without paying. In addition, current status of our club is still far from the word ? ethical?. We have not appreciating others property as well as we did to ourselves yet. The rule in ? Kode Etik Mahasiswa Fasilkom? , guide two stated ? including appreciates intellectual property?. Students of Faculty of Computer Science already know about this rule. In fact, its not the same as in the implementation, ignorance being a common garments.Ignorance regarding unlicensed software caused software piracy. Majority tend to have neither attention nor self-control in using unlicensed software. Some may didnt know that it is unethical. But some maybe already know that what he/she doing is wrong, but even so he/she is still doing it just because everybodycommunityis doing it. Our community is affecting us. A student may be an example for his/her friends or his/her community. He/she may use unlicensed software that is followed by others. This ignorance habit can damage our own personal ethic al which embedded in our heart.Furthermore, we start believing that our wrong-doing is right. In analyzing software piracy, writer think students should have an cognizance and moral responsibility. A developer of software may not know that his/her intellectual property was just being used irresponsibly. Student of Faculty of Computer Science should have known how hard it is to make software. They should have aware how long time needed, how many resources sacrificed by the developer to develop software. In students point of view, they need it but they dont want to give more when people are not giving anything.For example, an antivirus should be bought for some prices, but some students found that there is a forever-renew-trial of the antivirus, so that they dont have to pay. Along with economic principle, ? with less effort, can gain more? , we dont want to sacrifice more than others. It became a serious problem. As a conclusion, how to overcome this issue? It is a professional stan dard, based on the article connexion for Computing Machinery (ACM) stated that any person who wants to join the ACM should accept ? Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct? which covers the ethical issues surrounding oftware piracy. Writer think we can do as ACM do. Article entitled ? The Rules? also stated that computer artifactboth software and hardwarehas rules for both its developer and user, so that they will have morally ethical in developing or using software. It has seven rules which allow and avoid both developer and user to do something about the computer artifact. These rules should be well-applied as a solution for software piracy issue. In the top of those solutions, human factor is the main factor that we should pay more attention. References 1. K. W.Miller, Moral tariff for Computing Artifacts ? The Rules?. Illinois IEEE, 2011. 2. Unknown. (2011). Kode Etik Mahasiswa Fakultas Ilmu Komputer Universitas Indonesia Online. visible(prenominal) http//scele. cs. ui. ac. i d/file. php/1434/Kode_Etik_Mhsw_Fasilkom. pdf 3. Thurlow, Max. Ethical Issue in Software Piracy Online. Available http//www. ehow. com/list_6669954_ethical-issues-software-piracy. html 4. Boone, Kevin, Importance of Computer Ethics and Software Piracy Online. Available http//www. ehow. com/facts_5766300_importance-computer-ethics-software-piracy. html